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At 01:02 PM 1/8/97 -0800, you wrote: >Subject:RE>>Question: Diving with Asthma > >I have dived for five years with "mild asthma' - (I am triggered by infetions >ie cold (don't dive), irritating inhalants - (not many in dive mixtures)) Let me get this going in the right direction, you have mild asthma, correct. What is your lung function, 90% 80% 70% ect. To be told that you have mild asthma, you must have gone through some type of PFT (Pulmonary Functions Test). As far as irritation inhalants, I will have to say that you are correct in the statement that there should not be many in the dive mixtures no matter what ever they are. But if you live here in Fl, you have to deal with molds, pollen, dust particales, ect..... > >I have dived most of the gases(air, Nitrox, Long O2 deco, Trimix) and never >had a problem....... I have had long hard swims have you tried the english >channel tides ?? - I have had long(ish) warm water O2 deco (trimix FL cave >dives - not the ten hours or so George and the guys do) and long(ish) O2 cold >deco - Try Scapa Flow in early may some time I can only say one thing, you are lucky by allmeans, if it is true that you have true asthma. I think ( and this is only a thought, and I do not know your medical history), that you have more of a reoccuring bronchitis, more over a true asthma. I have yet to see a asthmatic come in through an ER wheezeing just because they got a cold, but I have see alot of PPL (people) come in the ER sounding like an asthmatic, only to find out via Chest X-ray that they had a pnumonia, or bronchitis. Bronchitis= an acute (everyonce and awhile) or chronic inflamation (about every month) of the mucous membranes of the tracheobronchial tree, which will cause the same symptoms as asthma. > >"Mr Lungs" comment "Don't do it" is one bold statement - as for no doctor will >pass an asthmatic fit for diving - they do in the UK - that included the >mandatory chest xray aswell (althought these are not done any more as >mandatory) I still will say "Don't Do IT!!" In the UK they can do what ever they want with you the patient, but here in the states there are too many things that a person is liable for. I would never tell this person to dive knowing that he had asthma.. If I did that, I just might as well hold a gun to this guys head. If he continues to dive, one day it will hit him, and he will be just another diver that died because of poor judgement. Also there is no such thing as an Asthmatic that is fit for diving!!! You can keep having your doctors allow these PT to dive, but they will not be passed here in the US, stamped as free to dive..... BTW, A mandatory Chest X-ray is not the way to tell if a person has asthma or not. PFT (chalange type), ABG (artiral blood gas), Sputum samples, and certain blood work, just to name a few test. > >GD > > *************************************** * Jeoff Freed * * aka Mr Lungs * * Orange City Fl * * www.totcon.com/users/lungs * * Home to the Wrecks of Broward * * PADI Divemaster * * Respiratory Therp (CRTT) * * A bad day Diving Beats a * * good day at work !! * * * ***************************************
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